About this episode
This week we're cooling off with homemade ice cream from ice cream maven Jeni Britton Bauer, author of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home . Andrea Nguyen, author of Into the Vietnamese Kitchen , shares her recipe for cool Vietnamese noodle salads. Susan Glasser, former editor in chief of Foreign Policy , talks about the ways in which food is used as a political tool from the story " Eat, Drink, Protest ," which appeared in Foreign Policy's food issue (Glasser is now editor of Politico). The Wall Street Journal's Katy McLaughlin explains her story on edible fashion . Jane and Michael Stern visit Nick's Kitchen in Huntington, Indiana. Broadcast dates for this episode: August 6, 2011 (originally aired) July 21, 2012 (rebroadcast) August 29, 2014 (rebroadcast)